Re: Only increasing incrementals

2018-12-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-12-12 19:11, Debra S Baddorf wrote: Oh, that’s right — Chris DID tell us what he was trying to do, last week: (in case it helps with any further answers) OK, given that what you want appears to be frequent snapshots, Amanda is almost certainly _not_ the correct tool for this job

Re: Only increasing incrementals

2018-12-12 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-12-12 02:18, Olivier wrote: Nathan Stratton Treadway writes: On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:18:25 +0700, Olivier wrote: Hello, UI am wondering if there is a way to define a DLE that would all incrementals but only with increasing level: - full (0) - incremental 1 - incremental 2 -

Re: Dumping and taping in parallel

2018-11-28 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-28 13:58, Chris Nighswonger wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:17 AM Austin S. Hemmelgarn mailto:ahferro...@gmail.com>> wrote: Based on your configuration, your tapes are configured to store just short of 800GB of data. The relevant lines then are these two:

Re: Dumping and taping in parallel

2018-11-28 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-28 10:58, Chris Nighswonger wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:49 AM Austin S. Hemmelgarn mailto:ahferro...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2018-11-28 09:53, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 28.11.18 um 15:47 schrieb Chris Nighswonger: >> So why won't amand

Re: Dumping and taping in parallel

2018-11-28 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-28 09:53, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 28.11.18 um 15:47 schrieb Chris Nighswonger: So why won't amanda dump and tape at the same time? It does normally, that is what the holding disk is for. Really? I was under the impression that it was for making sure you can finish dumps if

Re: Another dumper question

2018-11-26 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-26 15:13, Chris Nighswonger wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 2:32 PM Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 13:56:52 -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2018-11-26 13:34, Chris Nighswonger wrote: The other possibility that comes to mind is that your bandwidth

Re: Another dumper question

2018-11-26 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-26 13:34, Chris Nighswonger wrote: So in one particular configuration I have the following lines: inparallel 10 dumporder "STSTSTSTST" I would assume that that amanda would spawn 10 dumpers in parallel and execute them giving priority to largest size and largest time alternating. I

Re: Flushing the Holding Disk

2018-11-16 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-16 12:27, Chris Miller wrote: Hi Folks, I'm unclear on the timing of the flush from holding disk to vtape. Suppose I run two backup jobs,and each uses the holding disk. When will the second job start? Obviously, after the client has sent everything... Before the holding disk flush

Re: Does anyone know how to make an amadmin $config estimate work for new dle's?

2018-11-16 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-15 18:18, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2018 14:17:29 Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2018-11-15 13:36, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2018 12:57:54 Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2018-11-15 11:53, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2018 07:36

Re: Does anyone know how to make an amadmin $config estimate work for new dle's?

2018-11-15 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-15 13:36, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2018 12:57:54 Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2018-11-15 11:53, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2018 07:36:37 Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2018-11-15 06:16, Gene Heskett wrote: I ask because after last nights run

Re: Does anyone know how to make an amadmin $config estimate work for new dle's?

2018-11-15 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-15 11:53, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2018 07:36:37 Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2018-11-15 06:16, Gene Heskett wrote: I ask because after last nights run it showed one huge and 3 teeny level 0's for the 4 new dle's. So I just re-adjusted the locations of some

Re: Does anyone know how to make an amadmin $config estimate work for new dle's?

2018-11-15 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-15 11:21, Chris Nighswonger wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:40 AM Austin S. Hemmelgarn mailto:ahferro...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 2018-11-15 06:16, Gene Heskett wrote: > I ask because after last nights run it showed one huge and 3 teeny level > 0's f

Re: Does anyone know how to make an amadmin $config estimate work for new dle's?

2018-11-15 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-15 06:16, Gene Heskett wrote: I ask because after last nights run it showed one huge and 3 teeny level 0's for the 4 new dle's. So I just re-adjusted the locations of some categories and broke the big one up into 2 pieces. "./[A-P]*" and ./[Q-Z]*", so the next run will have 5 new

Re: Monitor and Manage

2018-11-14 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-11-14 10:44, Chris Miller wrote: Hi Folks, I now have three working configs, meaning that I can backup three clients. There is not much difference among the configs, but that is a topic for a different thread. My question is how I manage what AMANDA is doing? So, let's suppose I

Re: dumporder

2018-11-05 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 11/5/2018 1:31 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: Is there any wisdom available on optimization of dumporder? This is personal experience only, but I find that in general, if all your dumps run at about the same speed and you don't have to worry about bandwidth, using something like the

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-05 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 11/5/2018 1:05 PM, Chris Miller wrote: Hi Folks, I have four servers, henceforth AMANDA clients, that I need to backup and a lot of NAS space available. I'd like to configure AMANDA to treat each of the four AMANDA clients as if it were the only client, meaning each client should have

Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL -- future of Amanda development?

2018-10-02 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-10-02 13:29, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2018 12:34:40 Ashwin Krishna wrote: Hi All, We propose to have the call on Oct 8th at 11 AM Mountain Time. Agenda: * Zmanda's Acquisition by BETSOL * Attendee Introductions * Existing Governance Model of Amanda

Re: Weird amdump behavior

2018-07-30 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-07-30 00:38, Kamil Jońca wrote: Gene Heskett writes: On Saturday 28 July 2018 08:30:27 Kamil Jońca wrote: Gene Heskett writes: [..] Too many dumps per spindle, drive seeks take time=timeout? As I can see in gdb/strace planner hangs on "futex" 'futex' is short for 'Fast

Re: taper should wait until all dumps are done

2018-07-27 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-07-27 14:15, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 27.07.2018 um 19:37 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: Perhaps I can help with that. Great stuff, thanks for your informative reply, that's exactly the information I would like to have in the docs etc Will consult that in detail asap

Re: taper should wait until all dumps are done

2018-07-27 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-07-19 09:41, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I know about the 2 parameters flush-threshold-dumped flush-threshold-scheduled but how to make sure that *all* the planned dumps are done before writing to tape? Some kind of "taper-wait" ... Or just by trial-and-error with the 2 mentioned

Re: taper should wait until all dumps are done

2018-07-27 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-07-27 12:23, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 27.07.2018 um 17:02 schrieb Jean-Francois Malouin: You should also consider playing with dumporder. I have it set to '' and that makes the longest (time wise) dumps go first so that the fast ones get push at the end. In one config I

Re: custom_compress with zstd

2018-04-04 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-04-04 06:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2018-04-03 um 20:52 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: On 2018-04-03 14:25, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Does anyone already use zstd  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstandard with amanda? I will try to define an initial dumptype and play around

Re: custom_compress with zstd

2018-04-03 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-04-03 14:25, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Does anyone already use zstd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstandard with amanda? I will try to define an initial dumptype and play around although I wonder if the standard behavior leads to any problems. zstd does not remove the source file

Re: Amanda clients running Docker

2018-03-29 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-03-27 11:12, Joi L. Ellis wrote: I’m looking for information about how best to manage Amanda clients upon which are Devs are running docker containers.  Some of the production hosts are also running containers.  Does anyone have suggestions regarding best practices for backing up

Re: some suggested config parameters for backups to local disk

2018-03-23 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-03-23 08:25, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: "Ryan, Lyle (US)" writes: The server has an 11TB filesystem to store the backups in. I should probably be fancier and split this up more, but not now. So I've got my holding, state, and vtapes directories all in there. In this

Re: some suggested config parameters for backups to local disk

2018-03-23 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-03-22 19:03, Ryan, Lyle (US) wrote: I've got an Amanda 3.4.5 server running on Centos 7 now, and am able to do rudimentary backups of a remote client. But in spite of reading man pages, HowTo's, etc, I need help choosing config params.  I don't mind continuing to read and experiment,

Re: installing on Centos 7 - some newbee questions

2018-03-09 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-03-07 21:30, Ryan, Lyle (US) wrote: Hello all.  I’m getting my first Amanda server running on Centos 7 and have a few questions: - Centos is packaged with 3.3.3   Is that good enough or should I build 3.5? Provided it's not missing any features you need and doesn't have any bugs that

Re: keep a backup forever

2018-01-31 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-01-30 17:18, ghe wrote: On 01/30/2018 12:29 PM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: I feel like I've asked this before, but I can't find any emails. I can't believe this isn't an FAQ. Or rather, there is an FAQ, but the answer is (a) very sparse and (b) doesn't really answer the

Re: application amgtar ignore messages

2017-12-08 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-12-07 22:26, Jon LaBadie wrote: If I want amgtar to ignore certain messages, is it sufficient to list the message on the amanda server or must the ignored message also be listed in amanda-client.conf? I've done it several times, only on the server, and it seemed to work fine. But I'm

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-16 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-14 14:37, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-14 07:43, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-14 07:34, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-13 16:42, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 13/11/17 02:53 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: driver: send-cmd time 9300.326 to taper1

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-14 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-14 07:43, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-14 07:34, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-13 16:42, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 13/11/17 02:53 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: driver: send-cmd time 9300.326 to taper1: VAULT-WRITE worker1-0 00-00120 local-vtl local-vtl

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-14 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-14 07:34, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-13 16:42, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 13/11/17 02:53 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: driver: send-cmd time 9300.326 to taper1: VAULT-WRITE worker1-0 00-00120 local-vtl local-vtl Home-0001 client0 /home/1D 0 20171113073255

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-14 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-13 16:42, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 13/11/17 02:53 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: driver: send-cmd time 9300.326 to taper1: VAULT-WRITE worker1-0 00-00120 local-vtl local-vtl Home-0001 client0 /home/1D 0 20171113073255 "" "" "" "" 1

Re: power down hard drives

2017-11-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-13 14:51, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 02:04:42PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 13 November 2017 13:42:13 Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:40:17AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-13 11:11, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 13 November

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
/11/17 10:40 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-11-10 08:27, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >> On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: >>> On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >>>> On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: >>

Re: power down hard drives

2017-11-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-13 11:11, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 13 November 2017 10:12:47 Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-13 09:56, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 13 November 2017 07:19:45 Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-11 01:49, Jon LaBadie wrote: Just a thought. My amanda server has

Re: power down hard drives

2017-11-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-13 09:56, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 13 November 2017 07:19:45 Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-11 01:49, Jon LaBadie wrote: Just a thought. My amanda server has seven hard drives dedicated to saving amanda data. Only 2 are typically used (holding and one vtape drive

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
or the labeling change will fix this one). Jean-Louis On 10/11/17 10:40 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-11-10 08:27, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >> On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: >>> On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >>>>

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-10 08:45, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-10 08:27, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:  > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martin

Re: power down hard drives

2017-11-13 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-11 01:49, Jon LaBadie wrote: Just a thought. My amanda server has seven hard drives dedicated to saving amanda data. Only 2 are typically used (holding and one vtape drive) during an amdump run. Even then, the usage is only for about 3 hours. So there is a lot of electricity and

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-10 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-10 08:27, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:  > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:  >> Austin,  >>  >

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-10 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
that it only needs to be applied on the server and not the clients? On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >> Austin, >> >> It's hard to say something with only the error message. >> >> Can you post

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-10 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-10 08:27, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:  > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:  >> Austin,  >>  >

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-10 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >> Austin, >> >> It's hard to say something with only the error message. >> >> Can you post the amdump. an

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-08 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >> Austin, >> >> It's hard to say something with only the error message. >> >> Can you post the amdump. an

Re: amvault with dropbox

2017-11-07 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-07 13:36, Ned Danieley wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 01:29:34PM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: OK, so you're talking about functionally permanent archiving instead of keeping old stuff around for a fixed multiple of the dump cycle. If that's the case, you may be better off

Re: amvault with dropbox

2017-11-07 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-07 13:19, Ned Danieley wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 01:11:43PM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-07 11:55, Ned Danieley wrote: we use a dropbox business account to archive our data, and I was interested in trying to use amvault to transfer my amanda backups

Re: amvault with dropbox

2017-11-07 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-11-07 11:55, Ned Danieley wrote: we use a dropbox business account to archive our data, and I was interested in trying to use amvault to transfer my amanda backups there. however, it seems that there is a fair amount of work that would have to be done to the code base to make that

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-07 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
07/11/17 09:17 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > Where I work, we recently switched from manually triggered vaulting to > automatic vaulting using the vault-storage, vault, and dump-selection > options. Things appear to be working correctly, but we keep getting > some odd non-fat

Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

2017-11-07 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
Where I work, we recently switched from manually triggered vaulting to automatic vaulting using the vault-storage, vault, and dump-selection options. Things appear to be working correctly, but we keep getting some odd non-fatal error messages (that might be bogus as well, since I've verified

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

2017-10-24 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-10-24 12:28, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-10-24 um 13:38 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: On 2017-10-22 13:38, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: After or before I additionally can do something like: amvault myconf --dest-storage --latest-fulls archive correct? I think so, but I'm

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

2017-10-24 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-10-22 13:38, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-10-16 um 19:22 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2017-10-16 um 15:20 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Amanda 3.5 can do everything you want only by running the amdump command. Using an holding disk: * You configure two storages * All dumps

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

2017-10-19 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-10-19 11:06, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 19/10/17 08:48 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-10-18 15:45, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 2017-10-16 um 20:47 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: >> >>> While it's not official documentation, I've got a wo

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

2017-10-19 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-10-18 15:45, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-10-16 um 20:47 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: While it's not official documentation, I've got a working configuration with Amanda 3.5.0 on my personal systems, using locally accessible storage for primary backups, and S3 for vaulting

Re: What are the correct permissions for lib binaries for amanda 3.5

2017-10-16 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-10-16 14:58, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 16/10/17 01:48 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 08:12:43AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 14/10/17 12:12 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

2017-10-16 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-10-16 13:22, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-10-16 um 15:20 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: >> Amanda 3.5 can do everything you want only by running the amdump command. >> >> Using an holding disk: >> >> * You configure two storages >> * All dumps go to the holding disk >> * All dumps